"La seconde centurie des emblemes du Sr. Gabriel Rollenhague Magdeburgois, paraphrastiquement mise en ryme francoyse par T.D.L.S.D.O."--P. [6]. The translations into French verse follow on p. [7]-[26]

T.p., port. of Rollenhagen (p. [3]), and the 100 emblematic ill. were engraved by Crispijn de Passe the Elder; see Landwehr. The emblems are circular, with Latin motto around the perimeter and explanatory Latin couplet engraved beneath. Emblems 39 & 71 in Italian, 64 in Greek

Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the low countries

Praz, M. Studies in 17th-century imagery (2nd ed.)

Bound with a copy of the first part of the work: Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum / Gabriel Rollenhagen. Cologne : Crispijn van de Passe, 1611 (SPECIAL 93-B10499)

Two blank leaves at end of Getty copy are not called for by Landwehr or Praz, but must derive from the original printing process as they show faint counterproofs & maculatures of emblems 78 & 80

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1945

[28] p. (the last blank), 100 leaves of plates : 20 cm. (4to)

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